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Center Stage (2000)
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The primary appeal of dance movies is the dancing, with some added emphasis on the romance the art expresses. Center Stage wins on these counts, despite its reveling in overly familiar characters and formula plotting. Or maybe this reveling is responsible for what goofy fun this film is. The arduous task of becoming a professional ballet dancer is incarnated by many good-looking teens, all stock dance-film characters affectionately portrayed mostly by newcomers. But center stage holds Jody Sawyer (Amanda Schull), who may never be a great ballerina, but she's certainly one sexy jazz dancer. Then there's the arrogant genius (Ethan...
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Displaying the pain and heartache of ballet for the whole world to see, this film should be another teen classic, but instead it has been tossed aside and forgotten.
Certainly not genius nor breathtaking, what this film has is likeable characters, great acting from the women, if not the men, of the cast (especially Zoe...
(complete Center Stage review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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